Highlights scientific events in 2012

The global scientific community is stunned and delighted when a kind of " seed of God " is discovered, and this is also one of the outstanding scientific events in 2012.

Finding the seeds that closely resemble " God's seeds "

The illustration of the Higgs particle decays and produces two gamma rays in a large particle accelerator in Switzerland.(Photo: MSNBC).

Since the 1960s, several thousands of scientists have participated in the effort to find the Higgs, which creates mass for matter in the universe, so-called " God's particle ". If humans can prove the existence of the Higgs, this will be the greatest scientific achievement in 100 years. Because the scientific world has been believing in the Higgs county for the past five decades.

Then on July 3, the European Atomic Research Organization (CERN) announced that their physicists have found a particle with physical properties similar to the Higgs. The mass of the new particle is 133 times greater than the proton in the atom. CERN's announcement triggered an earthquake in the scientific world, but it also created a wave of skepticism. Although CERN's team claims that the probability of confusion is only half a million, analysts say physicists will have to continue to devote more time and effort to proving the new particle is " God's grain ".

America's " dream machine " landed on Mars

Curiosity is the most advanced and expensive self-propelled probe ever built by Americans.
(Photo: Fox News) .

At 1:30 am 6/8 hour east of the US, Curiosity - the name of the most modern self-propelled probe ever built by the United States at a cost of up to 2.5 billion USD - successfully completed the landing. spectacular down to the surface of Mars. Officials from the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) claim that Curiosity's landing is the most complex and stressful task they have ever done.

NASA used to bring three autonomous robots to Mars, but Curiosity is a much bigger and more complex machine than the other three robots. Only its largest device had four times the mass of the first robot to fly to Mars in 1997. The main task of Curiosity was to explore the mountain range of more than 5 km in the Gale hole for two years. It will climb the mountain range to study rocks dating back several billion years and look for evidence of bacterial survival in the history of Mars.

The oldest calendar of Mayans does not predict the end of the world

The figure was painted on a wall in the room that archaeologists discovered in the Xultun ruins in Guatemala.(Photo: BBC).

Ancient Mayan civilization used their astrological and astronomical knowledge to build a calendar. Astrologers often analyze cycles and predict future events. The end of a period of time in the Mayan calendar makes people of the modern world think that it foretold the destruction.

Last May, archaeologists worked at the ruins of the Mayan Xultun in northeast Guatemala to find a calendar dating back to 1,200 years of Mayans in a room of over 18 square meters. According to archaeologists, this is the oldest form of Mayan civilization that scientists have ever discovered. After analyzing part of the content of the ancient calendar, archaeologists affirmed that, unlike the rumors, the oldest form of Mayan civilization had no final date, meaning their astrologers never predicted the day the world would perish.

Venus passes through the sun

The sight of Venus moving through the solar disk on June 5. (Photo: NASA).

On June 5, Venus passes through the sun. This is a rare astronomical event that happened only once in the period from 2005 to 2117, meaning that the same phenomenon will only appear after 105 years. The time of Venus moving through the solar disk is 6 hours 40 minutes.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, Venus's association helped astronomers accurately measure the distance from the earth to the sun. Today, astronomers use an association to search for planets orbiting stars outside the solar system.

A new race will show up

Homo floresiensis strain illustration.(Photo: Guardian).

In August, the Turkana Institute in Kenya announced that they had discovered a strain that scientists had never known. Homo floresiensis, the name of this strain, is much lower than the modern one and lived with our ancestors nearly two million years ago. The discovery shows that Africa was once a crowded place due to the presence of many human strains.

Humans began to evolve in Africa from about 2.5 million years ago. Archaeologists calculate this time thanks to the first stone tools they discovered. Modern people, Homo sapien, are the only human race to live today. But in fact some other strains have appeared and disappeared on Earth.

Vu Ha Van received the international math prize

Mathematician Vu Ha Van. (Photo: vnmath.com).

For the scientific community in the country, the event of mathematician Vu Ha Van receiving an international award is a great joy, proving the mathematical talent of Vietnamese people.

At the optimal Math Congress in Berlin, Germany last August, Professor, Dr. Vu Ha Van and two others were awarded Fulkerson awards. This is an award for outstanding works in the field of Discrete Mathematics awarded by the World Mathematical Association and the American Mathematical Society every three years, starting in 1979.

Build a leading space center in Southeast Asia

The representative of Viet Nam pressed the official button to start the Vietnam Space Center.From left to right: Mr. Chau Van Minh and two Deputy Ministers of Science and Technology Nguyen Van Lang and Le Dinh Tien.(Photo: Huong Thu).

Project to build Vietnam Space Center officially started at Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park with the largest scale in Southeast Asia. The project is an especially important part of the 'Strategy for research and application of space technology in 2020' implemented by the National Satellite Center, under the Vietnam Institute of Science and Technology. It is also one of the largest invested projects in Vietnam's science and technology field in the past 35 years.

The National Space Center is a place to produce radar satellites, a technology that can capture the entire earth with very high resolution and specially captured in any weather. When operating, Vietnam Space Center is a place to research, produce, master small satellites to observe the earth and the whole territory of Vietnam in all weather conditions by modern radar technology, construction and treatment. management of satellite data for early supervision and warning of natural disasters, environmental disasters, global climate change research and prevention.

This project is a part of recent positive changes in the scientific environment in Vietnam, from policy proposals to mechanisms to attract talents.